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British Defense Secretary John Healey told parliament Wednesday the Royal Navy tracked a "Russian spy ship" that passed done U.K. waters, informing Russia's President Vladimir Putin: "We cognize what you're doing."
Healey said the Yantar (Amber) vas was being "used for gathering quality and mapping the U.K.'s captious underwater infrastructure."
"I besides wanted President Putin to perceive this message: 'We spot you, we cognize what you're doing and we volition not shy distant from robust enactment to support this country'," helium told MPs.
The vessel entered British waters connected Monday astir 45 miles (72 kilometers) disconnected the country's coast, with the Royal Navy dispatching 2 vessels to show it, Healy said.
"It was detected loitering implicit U.K. captious undersea infrastructure," the defence curate said.
He added the vessel was present successful the North Sea, "having passed done British waters."
A French authoritative told AFP that French subject resources had besides been mobilized to show Yantar but the vessel "had nary proven hostile intent."
"It happens regularly that a Russian vas passes done and determination is ever adjacent surveillance that is enactment successful place," the authoritative added.
Healy said it was the 2nd clip the Yantar had been detected successful British waters recently, aft it was besides spotted successful November.
British warships person tracked Russian Navy vessels connected respective occasions successful caller months.
Earlier this month, the Royal Navy revealed that successful precocious December the frigate HMS Somerset had tracked a Russian naval radical arsenic it sailed from the North Sea to the English Channel, though the radical had stayed successful planetary waters.
In September past year, Royal Navy warships spent a week "closely shadowing" 4 Russian vessels successful U.K. waters, portion 2 Royal Air Force jets scrambled to intercept 2 Russian craft operating adjacent the U.K., the navy said successful a property release.
The RAF is to supply craft for a caller NATO deployment designed to fortify the extortion of offshore infrastructure successful the Baltic Sea.
It comes aft the suspected sabotage of respective undersea telecom and powerfulness cables successful caller months with experts and politicians accusing Russia of orchestrating a hybrid warfare against the West arsenic the 2 sides quadrate disconnected implicit Ukraine.
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